How Do You Make Homemade Bongo Drums?
Bongo drums are percussion instruments used in Latin American music. Played in pairs, each set of bongos consists of a macho (male) and hembra (female) drum, tuned to different pitches. Bongos are played by hand and help keep the rhythm of dances consistent and quick. Make your own pair of homemade bongos. Select two bongo drum shells. These can be made from anything round and hollow inside, whether cardboard, metal, plastic or wood. Examples include round popcorn tubs, coffee cans, barrels, round shipping containers, buckets or carpet tubes. Make sure the shells are clean. The shells may be of two different sizes, or can start out the same size. Remove any tops of bottoms from the shells so that they are open tubes. Cut one shell to stand about 8 inches from the ground and the other to stand about 12 inches from the ground. (If you have shells of different sizes, cut the shell with the smaller diameter to 8 inches, and the larger shell to 12 inches.) The shorter bongo will be the high
